The history of Great Britanie from the first peopling of this island to this present raigne of or [sic] happy and peacefull monarke K: Iames, by Will: Slatyer.
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- The history of Great Britanie from the first peopling of this island to this present raigne of or [sic] happy and peacefull monarke K: Iames, by Will: Slatyer.
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- Slatyer, William, 1587-1647.
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- London :: Printed by W: Stansby, for Rich: Meighen, and are to be sold at his shop at St. Clements Church,
- [1621]
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"The history of Great Britanie from the first peopling of this island to this present raigne of or [sic] happy and peacefull monarke K: Iames, by Will: Slatyer." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12317.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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A briefe type of the second Booke or Ode of PALAE-ALBION, called ALBION.
The second Ode contayneth,
1. AN Apologie for Poësie in generall, and more expres∣ly in respect of some moralizing fictions, and sup∣posed escapes in this present, or the like moderne Historie of our Land of great Britaine.
2. An asseueration of the peopling of this Iland soone after the floud, as were the rest, by Noah, the great Belus or Saturne of Assyria, and his sonnes: whose stories are compa∣red with those ancient Panym fictions of Saturne, of Creet, and vnder him the flourishing golden Age.
3. The comming in of Albion, and his descent from Neptune, the sonne of Osyris, Iupiter, or Saturne of Egypt, the sonne of Cham, the sonne of Noah, who with his brother Bergion, were Kings of this Iland, Ireland, and the Orcades.
4. The ouerthrow of Albion and Bergion, by Hercules, the sonne of Iupiter, Europs or Osyris of Egypt, who with his mother Isis came into Germany and France, where he espou∣sed the daughter of Lycus, King of Celts: whose issue reigned there, and from whom the people and many of the chiefest places tooke their names.